41st year - N° 16 Friday, 16 January 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 16 Friday, 16 January 2026

16 January / Today's 31 Events: (x) 162 years ago  Saturday 16th of January 1864 19-year-old Victim of Jack the Ripper Mary Ann Nichols, originally Walker aka Polly marries John Nichols in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Between 1866 and 1879, the couple had five children: Edward John, Percy George, Alice Esther, Eliza Sarah, and Henry Alfred. (x) 128 years ago  Sunday 16th of January 1898 43-year-old Bigamist and multiple murderer Johann Otto Hoch, originally John Schmidt aka The Bluebeard Murderer marries Mrs. Winnie Westphal as William Frederick Bessing in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. Hoch disappeared with $900,-. (x) 119 years ago  Wednesday 16th of January 1907 24-year-old Serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf tries to commit suicide by lacerating the skin over a main artery in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. He was sentenced to three years imprisonment for 34 burglaries and thefts in 1905. (+) 96 years ago  Thursday 16th of January 1930 Triple murderer Clarence Ray Allen is born in Blair, Oklahoma, United States. (+) 93 years ago  Monday 16th of January 1933 Writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher and political activist Susan Sontag, originally Susan Rosenblatt is born in New York City, New York, United States. (-) 91 years ago  Wednesday 16th of January 1935 Crime matriarch Ma Kate Barker, originally Arizona Donnie Clark is killed along her son Fred by federal agents after an intense hours-long shootout at the age of 62 in 13250 East Highway C-25, Ocklawaha, Florida, United States. (-) 90 years ago He Didn't Even Know Why He Was There Thursday 16th of January 1936 Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 66 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States. The first blow short-circuited because of a number of needles Fish had inserted in his scrotum during his lifetime. He was the oldest man ever to be executed in Sing Sing. Fish' last words were reportedly "I don't even know why I'm here." (+) 83 years ago  Saturday 16th of January 1943 Photographer and Wiener Aktionist model Heinz Cibulka is born in Wien, Wien, Austria. (+) 79 years ago  Thursday 16th of January 1947 Member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Sara Jane Olson, originally Kathleen Ann Soliah is born in Fargo, North Dakota, United States. (-) 79 years ago  Thursday 16th of January 1947 Margot M. is beaten to death by serial killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher in Abbenrode, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. M.'s body was thrown in a ditch near the road between Abbenrode and Stapelburg. (+) 78 years ago  Friday 16th of January 1948 Film director John Howard Carpenter is born in Carthage, New York, United States. (-) 69 years ago  Wednesday 16th of January 1957 Conductor Arturo Toscanini dies of inner bleedings at the age of 90 in Riverdale, Bronx, New York, New York, United States. (+) 65 years ago  Monday 16th of January 1961 Double murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner is born in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. (x) 65 years ago  Monday 16th of January 1961 19-year-old Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) starts working as a shorthand typist in Millwards Merchandising, Levenshulme Road, Gorton, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. She would type plenty of letters for her later companion and Moors Murderer Ian Brady. (x) 61 years ago  Saturday 16th of January 1965 27-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 7. Aktion 'für dr. Wolfgang Tunner' in his house and studio in Wien, Wien, Austria. (x) 57 years ago  Thursday 16th of January 1969 21-year-old Revolutionary student Jan Palach aka Pochodeň č. 1puts himself on fire as a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring in Wenceslas Square, Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. “Given the fact that our nations are on the verge of desperation and resignation, we have decided to express our protest and stir the sleeping conscience of the nation.” Palach died three days later in the Charles University Faculty Hospital. (-) 56 years ago  Friday 16th of January 1970 Jean Way is strangled by serial killer Wayne Boden aka The Vampire Rapist in Lincoln Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Way was naked on her bed with bite marks on her breasts. (-) 48 years ago He Could also Suffocate or Smother Boys Monday 16th of January 1978 Child killer and would-be serial killer Ronald Frank Cooper is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in Pretoria Central Prison, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. In his diary Cooper had written: "I shall not kill all the boys the same way. Some I shall strangle with my hands. Other boys I shall strangle with a piece of cord or rope. Others again I shall stab to death and others I shall cut their throats. I can also suffocate or smother other boys". (x) 46 years ago  Wednesday 16th of January 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Das Berchtesgaden Diner' in 't Fabrieksken, Burchtstraat 20, Aalst, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. I was laying on the floor, tied up and my right arm pulled up by a piece of wood. Speeches of Adolf Hitler sounded very loud from speakers. With my head in a plate, I ate a mixture of salad, raw eggs and red wine. After about 15 minutes I got cramps in my stomach and threw up, after 25 minutes someone from the audience untied me. (-) 41 years ago  Wednesday 16th of January 1985 Cop killer Doyle Edward Skillern is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. (x) 38 years ago  Saturday 16th of January 1988 Noise music band Club Moral play their 76th concert in Kunstencentrum Carlos De Meester, Stationsdreef, Roeselaere, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. (-) 38 years ago  Saturday 16th of January 1988 James Edward 'Jamie' Doxtator is drugged, strangled and dismembered by serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal in 2357 South 57th Street, West Allis, Wisconsin, United States. A week later Dahmer 'defleshed' the corpse with either acid or a knife, smashed the bones with a sledgehammer, packed the whole bloody mess into a couple of binbags and left them out for the garbage truck. (-) 24 years ago He Kept Singing Amazing Grace Wednesday 16th of January 2002 Murderer Jermarr Carlos Arnold is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. After Arnold signaled the warden to begin the lethal injection, he began singing 'Amazing Grace' and kept singing as the chemicals coursed into his veins. 22 years ago  Friday 16th of January 2004 AMVK interviewed in her Headroom installation in Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Nicolaas de Liemaeckereplein 2, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. (-) 19 years ago  Tuesday 16th of January 2007 Food entrepreneur Rudolf-August Oetker dies of pneumonia at the age of 91 in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. (-) 12 years ago  Thursday 16th of January 2014 Murderer Dennis McGuire is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States. McGuire made several loud snorting or snoring sounds while straining to catch his breath as he experienced a medical phenomenon known as air hunger. Ohio officials used intravenous doses of two drugs, the sedative midazolam and the painkiller hydromorphone. (-) 5 years ago  Saturday 16th of January 2021 Murder plotter Dustin John Higgs is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. Higgs was convicted for his role in the January 1996 murders of 19-year-old Tamika Black, 21-year-old Tanji Jackson, and 23-year-old Mishann Chinn, who were all shot and killed near the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center on the Patuxent Research Refuge in Maryland. (-) 5 years ago The Wall of Sound Came Down on Him Saturday 16th of January 2021 Record producer and songwriter Phil Harvey Phillip Spector dies of complications of COVID-19 at the age of 81 in Stockton, California, United States. 5 years ago  Saturday 16th of January 2021 The snow covered beach in San Rocco, Mariakerke, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. (-) 3 years ago  Monday 16th of January 2023 Actress Gina Luigina Lollobrigida dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 95 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. (-) 1 years ago There Was a Big Hole in the World Thursday 16th of January 2025 Film director David Keith Lynch dies of emphysema at the age of 79 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Lynch evacuated his Los Angeles home due to the Southern California wildfires. Deadline Hollywood reported that these events preceded a terminal decline in Lynch's health.

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